Here’s Apple Traffic Before and After the Release of iOS 7.1 [PIC]

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Here’s Apple Traffic Before and After the Release of iOS 7.1 [PIC]

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Om Malik shares the following graphic which illustrates how a big Apple update such as iOS 7.1 can suddenly cause network traffic to spike, based on data from numerous North American ISPs part of the Internet Observatory Project:

Craig Labovitz, founder & CEO of network management services provider Deepfield knowing my interest in all things Apple shared this graphic about the impact of the release of iOS 7.1 (that runs on Apple’s iDevices) on the networks. He pointed out that this traffic includes bits from Apple data centers as well as all the Apple traffic on Akamai and Level3 CDN. And ditto for the other services. As Craig said, the released “crushed some networks.”